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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 259, 1 November 1890, Page 1

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Star Sammary. Outward mail on Monday. Ci*y Hall concert this evening. Crickeb Cup matches start to-day. Tho " Sorcerer " on Monday nighb. Railway Servants meat to-morrow. Schooner Olive arrived from the Islands. Waiteuiata Boating Club's trial fives toAuckland Institute meets on Monday Labour party have published their political platform. . First excursion of Auckland Fishing Club this afternoon. . Tho two would-be suicides ara doing well in the Hospital. __ . , _ . India was added to the British Empire just 52 years ago. Countess of Kintore arrives here from Sydney to-morrow. The University College Council meets on Monday afc 3.15 p.m. " 0 " Battery paraded this afternoon for annual volley firing. » . ' Professor Carrollo's annual boys' athletic carnival this afternoon. , _ Close on £100, has been collected in aid, of David Patterson, cab-driver. Bishop G'owie confirmed 33 young persons in All Saints' Church last night. Sunday - school Industrial _ Exhibition opens in Auckland on the 13th inst. Special parade of Ponsonby Naval Artillery on Monday next at the Drill-shed. _ London Bellringers and Faust Musical Family arrive here from Sydney to-morrow. Bakers and Pastrycooks', Master Ironworkers', and Farriers' and Fellmongers' i Unions meet to-nighfc. Auckland Masons have drawn up a complimentary address to Dr. Bond, late of Auckland and now of Chicago. Tho *.* Monthly Record," the monthly' letter of the V.M.C.A., contains a letter; about Rev. J. S. Hill's experiences in England. May ba obtained ab the Rooms. German medical gentlemen declare that Dr. Koch's discovery of a cure for consumption by means of inoculation is o£ greater importance than chloroform and, Lester's antiseptic. The last ordinary meeting of the Savage Club'for the present session will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. Members ara specially requested to attend, as a special, programme has been prepared. "^ The Burns Club at the Thames cele-j brated All Hallowe'en last night by a social and dance in St. George's Hall. There was a very large attendance, and the gathering was a thorough success in every respect. The Auckland Agricultural and Indus-, trial Show Committee have extended their entry time from Monday, November 3rd, to" Friday ab noon, [November 7th, at which time the final entries must be made to tliar secretary. " ~'■ , MrEgeson, of the Sydney Weather De-' partment, has been dismissed from the ser vice, owing to insubordination in persisting* in his prognostications in regard to the state of the weather. He still holds that; the three years'drought is coming in the near future. .':'*"'■. At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of,. New South Wales held yesterday at Sydney! a dividend ab the rate of fifteen percent, j per aunum was declared,, and a bonus of 2£: per cent. Teiv thousand pounds was added to the reserve, and £8,000 carried to the profit and loss acfiouni;. The annual meeting of the Wellington Caledonian Society was held last night. : The report was of a satisfactory and the balance-sheet showed a credifc balance of £333. Lieutenant-Colonel Hume; was elected president). It was decided thab' the usual sports be held on New Ycar'a Day. In the course of his speech ab Edinburgh, when the freedom of the city was conferred, on him, Mr Gladstone, in referring to the. McKinley Tariff Act, expressed the opinion; thab an Imperial Zollvorein would no doubb; enlarge colonial commerce, bub it would', infallibly contract British commerce with.' the rest of the world. ' Messrs Tyeer and Co., of London, still hold possession of tho New Zealand Shipping Company's books and documents, bub the latter are allowed full access to them. The New Zealand Shipping Company are aboub to institute proceedings against Tyser and Co. for mismanagement of their affairs, and they will also sue for possession, of the offices. The following New Zealand .candidates have passed the solicitors' general knowledge examinations:—E. W. Kane, F. E. Petherick, E. W. Porritt, and A. F. Wiren. Wellington; W. Lysnar, Gisborne; C. Invercargill; W. E. Mills, Christchtirch: D. Popple well, Dunedin; W. Airey, C. F. Hesketh, E. Rees,. and A. J. Pilkington, Auckland. .. ;*■